1 MARCH 2008, Page 63

Q. My husband has been acting very strangely, pulling agonised

faces in a mirror, wearing spectacles and practising speaking very slowly in a woman’s voice. He has become obsessed by Gill Harbord, the formidable headmistress of Eggleston Hall finishing school in the ITV series Ladette to Lady. Conversation is now impossible as he enunciates each syllable he speaks with a maddening precision, and the more I complain the more it eggs him on.

E.P., London W11 A. Do not rise to your husband’s bait. The series has now ended so his infatuation will soon fizzle out due to lack of nourishment. Meanwhile you should conceal any DVDs or videotapes he has made of the series until such time as he can control his urge to ‘channel’ Mrs Harbord.